# Audrey Hepburn on screen and stage

Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993) was a Belgian actress who had an extensive career in film, television, and on the stage. Considered by some to be one of the most beautiful women of all time, she was ranked as the third greatest screen legend in American cinema by the American Film Institute. Hepburn is also remembered as both a film and style icon. Her debut was as a flight stewardess in the 1948 Dutch film Dutch in Seven Lessons. Hepburn then performed on the British stage as a chorus girl in the musicals High Button Shoes (1948), and Sauce Tartare (1949). Two years later, she made her Broadway debut as the title character in the play Gigi. Hepburn's Hollywood debut as a runaway princess in William Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953), opposite Gregory Peck, made her a star. For her performance, she received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1954, she played a chauffeur's daughter caught in a love triangle in Billy Wilder's romantic comedy Sabrina, opposite Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. In the same year, Hepburn garnered the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for portraying the titular water nymph in the play Ondine.
Her next role was as Natasha Rostova in the 1956 film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. In 1957, Hepburn starred with Fred Astaire in the musical film Funny Face, and with Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier in Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon. Two years later, she appeared in the romantic adventure film Green Mansions, and played a nun in The Nun's Story. In 1961, Hepburn played café society girl Holly Golightly in the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's, and as a teacher accused of lesbianism in Wyler's drama The Children's Hour, opposite Shirley MacLaine. Two years later, she appeared opposite Cary Grant in the romantic mystery film Charade. Hepburn followed this by starring in the romantic comedy Paris When It Sizzles, opposite William Holden, and as Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the musical film My Fair Lady (both in 1964). In 1967, she played a blind woman menaced by drug dealers in her own home in the suspense thriller Wait Until Dark, which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Nine years later, Hepburn played Maid Marian opposite Sean Connery as Robin Hood in Robin and Marian.
Her final film appearance was a cameo as an angel in Steven Spielberg's Always (1989). Hepburn's final screen role was as the host of the television documentary series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (1993), for which she posthumously received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming. In recognition of her career, Hepburn earned the Special Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award.

## Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 1948 | Dutch in Seven Lessons | Stewardess | Dutch: Nederlands in Zeven Lessen | |
| 1951 | One Wild Oat | Hotel receptionist | Uncredited | |
| 1951 | Laughter in Paradise | Cigarette girl | | |
| 1951 | The Lavender Hill Mob | Chiquita | | |
| 1951 | Young Wives' Tale | Eve Lester | | |
| 1952 | Secret People | Nora Brentano | | |
| 1952 | Monte Carlo Baby | Linda Farrell Melissa Farrell (French version) | Simultaneously filmed in both English and French French: Nous irons à Monte-Carlo | [31] [32] [33] |
| 1953 | Roman Holiday | Princess Ann | Academy Award for Best Actress | |
| 1954 | Sabrina | Sabrina Fairchild | UK: Sabrina Fair | [35] [36] |
| 1956 | War and Peace | Natasha Rostova | | |
| 1957 | Funny Face | Jo Stockton | | |
| 1957 | Love in the Afternoon | Ariane Chavasse | | |
| 1959 | Green Mansions | Rima | | |
| 1959 | The Nun's Story | Sister Luke | | |
| 1960 | The Unforgiven | Rachel Zachary | | |
| 1961 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Holly Golightly | | |
| 1961 | The Children's Hour | Karen Wright | | |
| 1963 | Charade | Regina Lampert | | |
| 1964 | Paris When It Sizzles | Gabrielle Simpson | | |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady | Eliza Doolittle | | |
| 1966 | How to Steal a Million | Nicole Bonnet | | |
| 1967 | Two for the Road | Joanna Wallace | | |
| 1967 | Wait Until Dark | Susy Hendrix | | |
| 1976 | Robin and Marian | Maid Marian | | |
| 1979 | Bloodline | Elizabeth Roffe | | |
| 1981 | They All Laughed | Angela Niotes | | |
| 1989 | Always | Hap | | |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 1950 | Saturday Night Revue | Unknown | 3 episodes | [49] [50] [51] |
| 1951 | Sunday Night Theatre | Celia | Episode: "The Silent Village" | |
| 1952 | Toast of the Town | Lady Jane Grey | Episode: "Nine Days a Queen" | |
| 1952 | CBS Television Workshop | Virginia Forsythe | Episode: "Rainy Day at Paradise Junction" | [54] [55] |
| 1957 | Producers' Showcase | Mary Vetsera | Episode: "Mayerling" | |
| 1970 | A World of Love | Herself | UNICEF special | |
| 1987 | Love Among Thieves | Caroline DuLac | Television film | [58] [59] |
| 1988 | American Masters | Herself | Episode: "Directed by William Wyler"; Documentary | |
| 1988 | Gregory Peck: His Own Man | Herself | Documentary | |
| 1993 | Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn | Herself | Documentary series | |

## Stage

| Year(s) | Title | Role | Theatre | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 1948–1949 | High Button Shoes | Chorus girl | London Hippodrome | | |
| 1949 | Sauce Tartare | Chorus girl | Cambridge Theatre | | [17] [64] |
| 1950 | Sauce Piquante | Featured player | Cambridge Theatre | | |
| 1951–1952 | Gigi | Gigi | Fulton Theatre | 24 November 1951 – 31 May 1952 | |
| 1954 | Ondine | Ondine | 46th Street Theatre | 18 February 1954 – 3 July 1954 | |